GenStructure HOW TO JOIN HOW TO POST MESSAGES --moderator--

All information found below can be found in the GenStructure FAQ at:
http://www.medcor.mcgill.ca/EXPMED/GENSTRUCTURE/genstructure.html
GenStructure Subscription Information
Subscribing to this group:
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bionet.molbio.recombination when it appears in your newsreader.
Depending upon your news software, this may entail you having to answer a
prompt indicating that you want to subscribe. You might also try the
command "g bionet.molbio.recombination" in rn-like newsreaders.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: please send
the word help in the body of your message to MXT at dl.ac.uk to retrieve
general server usage instructions. To subscribe to the GenStructure
list,
first be sure that you are sending mail from the address at which you wish
to receive news postings, and then send the command:
SUB bionet.genome.gene-structure
toMXT at dl.ac.uk. This message will be automatically read by the
computer and your e-mail address will be extracted from the mail header
and
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IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE AMERICAS OR THE PACIFIC RIM: log in to the
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address
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Leave the Subject: line of the message blank and enter the following
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Canceling your subscription:
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN EUROPE, AFRICA, OR CENTRAL ASIA: first be sure
that you are sending mail from the address at which you signed up to
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IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM:
Please send a message to one of the following addresses depending upon
your
location
Address Location
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biosci at daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia
biosci-help at net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim
and someone on the staff will help you. PLEASE DO NOT send mail to
our personal e-mail addresses as this will delay a response to your
request for help.
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How to post a message to the group
If you use news, simply post a message into bionet.molbio.recombination.
Be
sure to set your "distribution" to "world" or else the message might not
leave your site!!
To post by e-mail, mail your message to one of the following addresses
depending upon your location:
Posting Address Location
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genestruc at daresbury.ac.uk Europe, Africa, and Central Asia
genestruc at net.bio.net Americas and the Pacific Rim
and your message will be distributed automatically to everyone on the list
and the USENET newsgroup. There is no editorial intervention.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS TO THE POSTING ADDRESSES
as you will bother everyone on the newsgroup!!!
How to reply to a message on the group:
If you are using a newsreader, simply use the reply or follow-up command
on
your newsreader (these
vary from program to program) to send either private or public replies.
If you are using e-mail, replies to messages that you receive will *NOT*
be
automatically returned to
the group. This is the standard for Internet mailing lists as opposed to
BITNET LISTSERVs which
often send all replies back to everyone. You must be certain that your
reply contains either of the two
newsgroup posting addresses above in your message header if you want to
share it with everyone on
the group. Otherwise in most cases your reply may go back to only the
original poster of the message
to which you are replying.
ALWAYS be certain that you examine the address on your messages before you
send them!!! Once a
message is sent there is no way to cancel it or bring it back!!! Some
non-Internet compliant mail
systems may attempt to send replies to our error-trapping address called
BIOSCI-REQUEST. If
yours does this, please be sure to readdress your message to
genestruc at net.bio.net or
genestruc at daresbury.ac.uk if you want to send it to the newsgroup.
How to look at archives of the list:
The BIOSCI archives and other BIOSCI information can be found on our
Bionet
WWW home
page. Easy access from the WWW home page to our FTP/gopher area is
available for information
retrieval.
Past Articles can be obtained in one of three ways:
1.Archives for GENSTRUCTURE/bionet.genome.gene-structure are kept in
the
anonymous FTP account at net.bio.net [204.31.212.2]. Look in the
directory
pub/BIOSCI/GENSTRUCTURE for posting archives. Each file is assigned a
date such as
9312 for December 1993. Please note that ours is a UNIX system and
all
file and directory
names are case-sensitive, i.e., upper case file names are different
from lower case names.
2.You can also access these same files via Gopher if you start a gopher
session using net.bio.net
as your gopher server. Gopher also allows you to view the individual
messages within each
monthly archive file. The files are in the RECOMBINATION directory.
3.Postings to bionet.genome.gene-structrure are also WAIS indexed and
can be searched via
either gopher or WAIS at our site. In gopher the option at
net.bio.net
is "Search Bionet
USENET Articles" and in WAIS one should use the WAIS source
biosci.src. This is a WAIS
index of all BIOSCI/bionet messages including this newsgroup. Please
see the BIOSCI FAQ
for details.
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| Graham Dellaire
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| Division of Experimental Medicine
| Dept of Medicine, McGill University
|(http://www.medcor.mcgill.ca/EXPMED/DOCS/expmed.html)
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